Expanding the story of the scandals of the British Conservative Party as the parliamentary elections approach

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, newspaper ” Tugs Saitong wrote in an article: As the election in England gets closer, it seems that the problems facing the ruling conservatives are increasing. In this situation, their gap with the Labor Party in the opposition has reached a disappointing figure of 20 percent in the polls. Parliamentary seats are lost one after another in the mid-term elections for the conservative party, and now two people have caused serious trouble for this party.

One Among them is Lee Anderson, a 57-year-old MP who was the Conservatives’ deputy chief executive until mid-January. Anderson announced on Monday that he had joined the populist British Reform Party. In a news conference with Richard Tice, head of the Reform Party, he said that he wants his country to return (to better conditions) and criticizes the massive immigration and pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Since Anderson It could have played an important role in winning key constituencies for the Conservatives. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who took office in 2022, appointed Anderson as deputy leader of the party. Now, after growing differences with Rishi Sunak, he has made a political leap to the extreme right.

But as if this blow to the Conservative Party was not enough On Tuesday, the Guardian published revelations about Frank Hester, an entrepreneur who has donated ten million pounds (just under €12 million) to the Conservatives in the past six months. According to the Guardian, Hester mocked black Labor politician Diane Abbott at a business meeting in 2019 and also insulted black women.

The Guardian has not provided any evidence for these claims and it is not clear how or why these explanations were made public. Hester has now explained that she tried to apologize to Abbott several years ago. He explained that what he said should not be understood as racist, but should be considered “impolite”. To reduce tensions, he announced that he, as a child of Irish immigrants, suffers from racism and hates it.

After the initial maneuvers, the conservatives They tried to distance themselves from Hester. Meanwhile, in particular, Kimi Badnock, the Minister of Commerce, the most prominent black conservative politician, called Hester’s comments “racist and wrong” on Tuesday evening. admitted in its weekly session of Parliament on Wednesday, but did not respond to Labor’s request to return the donation to the party from the man. Albie Amancona, leader of the Conservatives Against Racism, called for the money to be used to promote and support conservative black and minority ethnic groups.

Thus the party Britain’s conservative ruler does not want to return a million-dollar donation from a key supporter after he was criticized for a racist statement. Rishi Sonak told parliament that entrepreneur Frank Hester had apologized for comments about black MP Diane Abbott and that the apology should be accepted. Healthcare software The Phoenix Partnership is the ruling Conservatives’ biggest backer, donating £10m (€11.7m) to the party last year.

Hester after the Guardian report He said he made disparaging remarks about Abbott, but not racist remarks. Conservative Party Minister Kevin Hallinrock also said that this statement is clearly racist; But this is not a reason to return the financial aid. When asked by the BBC whether they would continue to accept money from Hester in the future, he said he thought they would. The Conservative Party also asked their party leadership to return the money to distance themselves from Hester and her statement. Labor leader Keir Starmer attacked Sunak directly in Parliament on Wednesday. “Would the Prime Minister be proud of receiving funding from someone who uses racist and misogynistic language?” he asked. The value of more than 400 million pounds has been won from the NHS health system and other government institutions.

Swiss Tagus Anseiger newspaper also wrote in an article: The situation for British conservatives It gets scary. Not only are they falling further and further behind the opposition Labor Party, but a whole new danger has recently arisen for them on the right. The right-wing populist UK Reform Party, founded by Nigel Farage, has begun to steal large numbers of Conservative voters. It has always considered itself to be Britain’s “natural governing party”.

This is possible for Labor because of the peculiar majority voting system in the British Isles. to win a two-thirds majority of seats in the House of Commons. But the Tories’ real nightmare is that for the first time a party from the right threatens them and undermines their base.

Actually according to Conservative polls have dipped below 24 percent, while the Reform Party has won 12 percent or more. This means that the Reform Party has become the third largest party in Britain, ahead of the Liberal Democrats and the Greens.